Brain Busters

Fifty-one original puzzles include complex crosswords, a collection of amusing stories with a series of clues that lead to a single solution at the end, and an advanced series of math and logic puzzles — no skills beyond high school algebra needed. Most puzzles include hints; solutions are provided for all.

This title in the series will show you how to play tricks on your brain! Observe contour illusions and after-affects, learn about blind spots, and use everyday materials to create your own incredible brain busters.

Putting your thinking cap on has never been more fun! These50 colorful pages of activities test math and logic skills aswell as powers of observation. Perfect for 8- to 11-year-olds,the brain games involve calculatingthe weight of plunderedtreasure, mapping pirate shiproutes, solving secret codes,and other exciting challenges.

Will Shortz has compiled 150 of his favorite word puzzles in this one-of-a-kind collection.

"This collection of questions that stimulate thinking is a combination joke book, logic book and puzzle book . . .The verbal questions that rely on word plays are particularly entertaining and sure to tickle many students."--School Library Journal A collection of mathematical and verbal brain-teasing questions interspersed with "brain vacation" jokes.

Fun-filled activity book, bursting with great ways to keep children busy.

It’s a pocket-size brain gym. Here are more than 500 full-color puzzles from the original Big Book of Brain Games—the book that Will Shortz praised as “the most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining collection of brainteasers since Sam Lloyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles,” and The Washington Post called “an opus . . . mixing math with wonder.” Here are mental games, visual challenges, logic posers, riddles, and illusions, each designed to stretch neurons and give the brain a workout—all in a format that will fit in your pocket. The puzzles (both original and mind-boggling adaptations of classics) are rated in difficulty from level one to ten, but even the easiest are guaranteed to make the solver feel smart. Can you cross the Impossible Domino Bridge? Break through the Queen’s Standoff? Wield the Sickle of Archimedes? The Little Book of Big Brain Games: salted peanuts for the mind.